Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
"a THREE-TIME WINNER"
Has Hanlan Lost His Grip?-Philosophica
Training Demanded.


The defeat of "Ned" Hanlan by
Teemer at Toronto in August indicates
the lend of the glory" of the doughty
champion.
He has sustained his record with ad-
mirable pluck and success, but the ire
mendous strain Of years of training must
certainly some day find its limit.
Apropos of this we recall the follow
ing interesting Renaissance of aquatic
annals:
On fine, bright day in August, 1871,
an excited multitude of $4,000 to 10000
persons lined the shores of the beautiful
Kenebecassis, near st. John, N. b., at
tracted by a four-oared race between
the famous Paris crew of that city and a
picked English crew for $1,000 and the
championship of the world. Wallace
Ross, the present renowned oarsman,
pulled stroke for the Blue Nose crew.
and "Jim" Renforth, champion sculler
and swimmer of England and of the
world, was stroke in the English shell.
Excitement was at fever heat.
But three hundred yards of the course
had been covered when the Englishmen
noticed that their rivals were creeping
away.
"Give us a dozen, Jim," said the vet
eran Harry Kelly, ex-champion of Eng
land, who was pulling No. 8 oar.
II can't, boys, Pm done," said Rem
forth, and with these words he fell
forward, an inanimate heap in the boat.
"He has been poisoned by bookmak-
ers," was the cry and belief.
Everything that science and skill could
suggest for his restoration was tried;
but after terrible struggles of agony, the
strong man, the flower of the athletes
and pride of his countrymen, passed
away.
The stomach was analysed, but no sign
or trace of poison could be found therein,
though a general examination showed
very strange condition of the blood and
the life-giving and health preserving
organs caused by years of unwise train
ing. While the muscular development
was perfect, the heart and kidneys were
badly congested.
The whole system was, therefore, in
just that state when the most simple
departure from ordinary living and ex-
ertiOn was of momentous consequence.
His wonderful strength only made his
dying paroxysms more dreadful and the
fatality more certain.
Hanlan is now in Australia. Beach,
champion of that country, is powerful
fellow, who probably understands the
liability of athletes to death from over
training, the effect thereof being very
serious on the heart, blood and kidneys,
as shown by poor Renforth's sudden
death.
Within the past three years he has
taken particular care of himself, and
when training, always reinforces the
kidneys and prevents blood congestion
in them and the consequent ill-etfect on
the heart by using Warmers safe cure,
the sportman's universal favorite, and
says he 'is astonished at the great benefit"
| Harry Wyatt, the celebrated English
trainer of athletes, who continues him
self to be one of the finest of specimens
of manhood and one of the most success
full of trainers, writes over his own sig
nature to the English Sporting Life,
September 5, saying: 81 consider War
ner's safe cure invaluable for all training
purposes and outdoor exercise. 1 have
been in the habit of using it for a long
time. l am satisfied that it pulled me
through when nothing else would, and
it is always three-time winnerp'
Beach's and Wyatt's method of train
ing is sound and should be followed
| by ALL